GROOVIN' ON VINYL

I have mixed feelings about this. One the one hand, I am THRILLED that consumers are demonstrating the need for physical media. I think it far superior to downloading. On the other hand, I just got done spending a lot of time and money converting my LP collection to CD. I got tired of having to buy new needles, clean the discs, make sure they never got scratched, and repair the turntable. I also didn't want the added space on my shelf for a DVD/CD player and a turntable, not to mention the added space needed for two format collections. Don't get me wrong: vinyl is very cool. However I think the CD has been getting a raw deal in recent years. Media hype has a tendency to bully certain formats out of existence and I really don’t want to have to turn back to LPs or (cringe) rely on compressed MP3s simply because that’s what the youth market tells me to do.

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Don't forget that with the invention of the technology which allows you to control and play digital music files from your computer using a turntable and specially timecoded vinyl (Serato Scratch by Rane, Final Scratch by Stanton) that not everybody is buying turntables for the quality of analog audio or for the pleasure of flipping through their record collection. They're buying them for the old school feel of DJing with vinyl.

how ignorant can you people be? the author has no clue what's going on. people are buying more turntables to learn how to scratch, not because they "sound better than CDs" search for articles and videos on TURNTABLISM. get a clue

Don't allow your own ignorance to shine too bright, only_comments. Though there still is a substantial turntablist scene, most club djs who buy vinyl don't do too much cutting and scratching. And the upswing in collectable vinyl sales shows that the overall consumer is coming back to vinyl, at least in a small degree. I don't think too many turntablists are buying Wilco albums on vinyl, and I doubt that someone is dropping $200 on a box set of every John Coltrane Atlantic-released album just to beat juggle them. I'm not opposed to Serato, but there is a HUGE audio quality difference between vinyl and mp3. Vinyl does have a superior audio quality than CDs, but most people would be hard pressed to hear the difference. However, the purpose of an mp3 is to compress the digital information contained in an audio recording to make it take up less space on a hard drive, be it laptop or iPod. If one were to have a real analog recording of every song in their collection converted to digital with no compression, they're going to have to buy a large amount of external storage devices in order to even hold it. The inherent purpose of compression is to remove as much data possible while still retaining the core of the file. However, a compressed mp3 does lose the overall audio quality of the original recording. If you ever heard an original vinyl pressing played on the same system as an mp3 of the same song, the difference is night and day.